Fidel Castro Will Step Down SundayCuba’s ailing leader Fidel Castro has announced he will not accept another term as president, ending the communist revolutionary’s 49 years in power.
Daily Archives: February 19, 2008
Evolution, Cuisine and Romance
Greg Is Doing a Cafe Scientifique…“Evolution, Cuisine and Romance”This Tuesday at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Continue reading Evolution, Cuisine and Romance
The Potato and Human Evolution
Fallback foods are the foods that an organism eats when it can’t find the good stuff. It has been suggested that adaptive changes in fallback food strategies can leave a more distinct mark on the morphology of an organism, including in the fossil record, than changes in preferred food strategies. This assertion is based on work done by the Grants and others with Galapagos Island finches, by Richard Wrangham and me with hominids, and by Betsy Burr and me with rodents. Continue reading The Potato and Human Evolution
What did the immediate ancestor of chimps and humans look like?
Comparing living chimpanzees to living humans, in reference to the species that gave rise to these two closely related species, is one way to frame questions about the evolution of each species. Continue reading What did the immediate ancestor of chimps and humans look like?